Amazon starts shipping with airships and drones?

Recently, Amazon's interesting video was released online. It was a video of an Amazon named airship floating in the sky and a drones coming out of an airship. Netizens are finally amazed that the delivery of the drones has come true, and they have expressed interest in like the carrier of the StarCraft computer game.

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 Airship ships, real? fake?

Many people were concerned that the video of the Amazon airship was genuine or fake. However, the video was confirmed to be a precisely worked with CG. On April 1, April Fool's Day, a Japanese video producer uploaded a CG video of an Amazon airship to his SNS account, and after a while he uploaded a photo of the CG producing process and confirmed it was a fake video.

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Amazon's airship shipping patents,

One of the biggest reasons why netizens thought it was real while watching the airship video is probably because Amazon owns a patent on shipping methods using airships and drones. Amazon's patent literature, which was released a few years ago, shows how to ship to a destination using airships and then deliver them individually using drone. There is already an article published on the news that Amazon is studying drones delivery, and it seems that many people thought that Amazon was made the video in real by the fact that Amazon owns the patent.

www.wipsglobal.com <WIPS patent search database>
drawing of Amazon's patent document

 Amazon makes you look forward to,

Although Amazon's airship images have turned out to be April Fools' Day funk, I think it might be possible for Amazon to actually deliver those ships. Amazon is doing a lot of research related to unmanned delivery using drone, and it has succeeded in test delivery. It is expected that Amazon, which is leading the innovation through various research and development, can actually deliver the airship or introduce more innovative delivery.

[WIPSTUDY #1] Taiwan- Patent Litigation case study #1

In this study, 

we're going to find out that Taiwan lawsuit filed in US litigation reviewing real cases that Taiwan corporations and Korean corporations focusing on;

• Case Search
• Statistics
• Docket Information

                                                  < Search and analysis database : WIPS Global >

1-1. Case Search and Statistics

wipsglobal.com> US litigation search

◀US litigation 2016-2018.

Total 13,813 litigation cases in the entire US area for the latest 3 years. The result narrow it down to 13,030 cases by grouping litigation unit.  

(Left) 89% of cases closed in Federal District Court, 9% to CAFC (Court of Appeal for Federal Circuit) and only 1% to ITC (International Trade Commission) and Supreme Court respectively. (Right) 25% cases were proceeded in Texas Eastern District Court followed by Delaware and California Central Court.
More than 40% of the total are concentrated in Texas and Delaware district court. 

Looking into Taiwan cases. 

wipsglobal.com> SmartAngle

There're total 11,939 patents involved with the all 13,813 US litigation.

Among them, Asian cases are in the order of Japan, Korea, Taiwan....   and Taiwan accounts for 1% with 110 cases.

The 1st applicants of the Taiwan cases filed in the US litigation during the same period are as below. 

wipsglobal> SmartAngle (2016-2018)

Then, what about the entire period? There're 90,564 litigation in the United States with 46,745 patents involved. Taiwan accounts for 1% with 509 cases out of total which is the same ratio above. 

Following chart is the 1st applicants from the top with the number of cases.  

wipsglobal> SmartAngle (no period)

By the top 10 applicants, it tells that most patent litigation is concentrated in the fields of electricity, electronics, semiconductor and computer.

We're going to review an real case on liquid crystal display between AU Optronics Corp.( ranked in 4th above) and Korean corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

1-2. Case Study

AU Optronics Corp. v Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd

wipsglobal.com> US litigation search

• Case type : infringement
• Court : Delaware district court
• Product : Samsung's 46'' LCD TV model LN46C630K1F
• Plaintiff : AU Optronics Corp.
• Defendant : Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd et al. 4
• Patent : US 7286192

This is the infringement case filed on Jun. 27th, 2011 and closed on Jan. 27th, 2012 at the Delaware district court. It's about patent infringement AU Optronics applied for in 2007. As the owner of a patent right, they accused the 4 companies including Samsung Electronics. Case flow diagram shows it's closed at the Federal District step. 


1-3. Docket Review

This case is settled by patent cross license agreement. We can check the result of the case through the docket information. 

wipsglobal.com> US litigation search> view detail

view detail> docket information

◀ Patent cross license agreement

the docket says;
AU Optronics Corporation and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. buried the hatchet Friday in several lawsuits against each other over liquid crystal court and the U.S. International Trade Commission.











   





                                                                         
                                                                             

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Inter Milan filed a suit against David Beckham

Italian football club ‘Inter Milan’ has filed suit against British soccer star David Beckham. The reason for the suit is that the Beckham's new soccer club’s title infringes on the Inter Milan’s trademark rights. It seems to be an worldwide issue because it is a lawsuit between prominent club of Italian Serie A and famous soccer star.

Inter Milan and David Beckham

Inter Milan is an independent football club from the Italian football club AC Milan, official name is the Internazionale Milano Football Club. It is called 'Inter' which means 'international' by accepting not only domestic players but also foreign players. Meanwhile, David Beckham has retired from active duty, and he has set up a football club in Miami since 2014. He was allowed to join the club in January of last year with the name 'Inter Miami' and will be participating in the American Football League from 2020.

'Inter' is the exclusive name of Inter Milan?

The problem is that the 'Inter' part of 'Inter Miami' names overlap with Inter Milan. The Inter Milan insisted that only Inter Milan can use the name "Inter". It also claimed that Inter Miami is a trademark infringement of Inter Milan if it used the name "Inter" because it registered its name as a trademark, and asked the judge to make the name "Inter Miami" unavailable as the trademark.

intomark.com (WIPS's trademark search database) 

Trademark of Inter Milan

Inter Milan and Inter Miami

At first glance, it seems that the name 'Inter' does not have a distinctive identity as a trademark because it is the first part of International (Internazionale in Italian) which means 'international'. However, the name of Inter Milan is registered as a trademark, so it is difficult to judge easily. We should wait and see how the results of the two famous football teams of ‘Inter’ are going to come out.